Outpatient Surgery Magazine's eNews Briefs. Bringing you the surgical news you want.

Outpatient Surgery Magazine's eNews Briefs. Bringing you the surgical news you want.

Minimally invasive techniques, premium power tools and innovative multimodal pain management practices are helping surgeons repair a number of foot and ankle...

Orthopedics is a male-dominated field. What needs to be done to remedy that? This is a very big topic because we have to address the underlying causes of...

The time for repairing a wide variety of fractures on an outpatient basis is now. With patients reluctant to be admitted to hospitals due to the pandemic, and health systems...

Julie Moyle, RN, MSN, remembers the case well, even though it occurred more than 35 years ago. At the start of the AIDS epidemic, she was a surgical nurse at a hospital in...

Outpatient orthopedics has come a long way in a very short period of time. I vividly remember when my mother-in-law had her knee replaced in a hospital and how she couldn’t sleep afterward because she was in such...

Orthopedic surgery centers that purchase robotic platforms for knee replacement surgery are investing in the promise of positive outcomes and the potential to tap into...

Baby boomers are getting older and have no intention of suffering through debilitating hip pain during their golden years. Perhaps in the past, older individuals put up with...

We’re witnessing a perfect storm of factors converging at the perfect time to make outpatient spine one of surgery’s hottest specialties. There’s overwhelming physician buy-in, widespread insurer acceptance, proven statistics...

Total joint replacements have long been recognized as one of the more painful surgeries patients undergo. Thanks to the widespread use of multimodal pain...

Proper patient positioning before shoulder surgery prevents painful nerve and pressure injuries, and gives surgeons critical access to hard-to-reach areas of the joint space....

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already seen the well-deserving winners of the 2021 OR Excellence Awards. Because the editors of this fine publication didn’t feel the need to solicit input from their backpage banterer...

Your staff must know how to immediately respond if a patient’s airway catches fire, surgical equipment starts to spark or flames erupt in the sterile field. It’s helpful to designate specific roles for each surgical team member...

Surgery centers are highly dependent on anesthesia services to run productive and dynamic surgical businesses, but maintaining working relationships with quality provider groups has never been more challenging....

Great ideas for your OR

Many of you have learned, implemented, tweaked and documented new cleaning practices and infection control protocols — measures that seemingly changed from week to week — to keep your patients and staff safe...

The 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and ASC Payment System proposed by CMS is filled with changes that are more curious than cause for serious concern. CMS, which ultimately intends to slow...

Reprocessing techs at outpatient ophthalmic facilities don’t often deal with grossly contaminated instruments, so it helps to alert them when tools are in need of extra attention before sterilization. “Enzymatic detergents...

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